Recent content by Pilot-Dave

Congrats!! Awesome story thanks for sharing. Well done.

Re: one chapter ends and another begins... Awesome! Congrats!! thanks for the walkthrough of the journey in this thread!

Thanks for sharing, that Kimberly and Tyler. Sounds like I'm in good company. I have been trying to do 3 lessons a week, and I stuck to that even while I was waiting on my school to get me scheduled for the pre-solo check ride. (So my pre-solo hours ticked up in the meantime.) I haven't done...

Awesome, congrats!! Thanks for sharing the details of the experience for those of us who haven't gotten there yet.

Yup, they took the picture - and I'm pretty sure they'll use it to send me some letter/certificate of the event. Pretty safe bet the picture will make their facebook page (and the big LCD display in the FBO), at some point too.

Thanks all! And, nope, they didn't cut my shirt. :) I was wondering if they would but didn't.

I flew my first solo flight yesterday morning! I flew in a Diamond DA-20 out of KUMP (Indianapolis Metropolitan Airport). It was great; Three take offs and landings as sole occupant of the aircraft :) and pretty decent landings too, if I do say so myself. My first two landings were so good...

I've been using the King School's "Cessna Flight Training Course" - Online version. http://cessnaflighttraining.kingschools.com/course/ppc/privatepilot.aspx The course is a flash application (not just flash video but also an interactive flash application), so it's not iPad friendly by...

I take it then you haven't opted-out? Has anyone here opted-out and for any reason come to wish they hadn't?

Congrats!! :cheers:

hmm interesting. Ok, well thanks for the simple answer. :) I may be thinking too much of this, given that I'm an FCC licensed shortwave radio operator (and thus already in one publicly available federal database) ... but if you really can opt-out of this (which I don't believe you can do...

So I've recently received my student pilot certificate (medical), and this morning I received a letter from the FAA notifying me about the "Wendell H. Ford Aviation Investment and Reform Act" and its "requirement" for my personal information to be released to the public. The wisdom of this...

Thanks! Oh, not to worry, I'm far from over confident, LOL. I don't, myself, feel like I'm 'pretty close to the solo', but it was encouraging to hear the CFI say so. I know it was but one lesson of many, and that landings - and the million other things there are to learn/work on - will...

I had another lesson today, and man was it a lot of fun! I did 9 landings today (after some maneuvers work in the test area), and they were my best landings to date! Even better, I was pretty consistent with them all. A few of them were awesome and all of them were decent. It was great...

Ah gotcha I see now, sorry. Well at least there is progress on many fronts.